Free French - English Translation in the PONS Online Dictionary

The PONS French - English online dictionary is a free online resource for everybody.

Look up a word or a phrase by typing it in the search box. You can choose to search in both language directions or in just one direction.

Also try all the other free bilingual PONS online dictionaries available on this site. You can select them with the drop-down menus on the right of the search bar.

Key Features of the PONS French - English online dictionary

  • More than 500,000 words, meanings, phrases and translations
  • Information on pronunciation including phonetic transcription and audio output
  • French and English virtual keyboards (to help with special characters in each language)
  • Suitable for school, university, work and leisure
  • Bidirectional search (French > English and English > French)

Why use the PONS French - English online dictionary?

Are you looking for the best French - English online dictionary? Then you have found out. Millions of internet users worldwide rely on PONS online dictionaries every day.

Carefully edited by experts, the PONS online dictionary includes everyday language, regionalisms as well as specialist language and terminology (for example technical, medical, scientific and legal).

Thanks to the constant updating and revision of content by PONS editors and lexicographers, we guarantee a high-quality, complete and up-to-date dictionary with the best translations. Users can also help to enrich the dictionary with their own contributions. All contributions are checked by language experts before publishing.

The dictionary’s well-structured entries cover a broad spectrum of subject areas and include all relevant linguistic information (for example word class, plural forms, article and phonetical transcription). This makes the French - English online dictionary suitable for all users (students, teachers, self-learners, professionals and everyone who simply wants to learn a new language).

The dictionary also helps you to improve your French and English pronunciation: it provides audio pronunciation of words and phrases for different regional variations of a language. Example sentences make it even easier to use a word or phrase correctly.

Contact us

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Headword List of the French - English Dictionary

Browse the dictionary using the headword list to see an alphabetical list of French words beginning with that letter. And click on it to get to the English translations.

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